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Originally Posted by AcGold
Interesting assumptions. Nobody here said no harm ever came from it, not a single person. What implications? How will legalization all of a sudden change how it effects people? We already know most of the effects.
Bad for teenagers and developing minds, bad for lungs if there are chemicals used on it, bad for mentally unstable people, bad for memory if abused. Legalization changes nothing in terms of health effects. Most of the governments propaganda is usually false; the it makes you lazy argument is the worst one. Lazy people are lazy.
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Every pot activist I have ever heard speak has started with the statement, "Pot has never hurt anybody." and what I was really saying is we don't mock those people nearly enough, especially if we are going to mock the government for stating more realistic statistics.
No problem with anyone who wants to come down on either side of the legalize/don't legalize argument, I have no strong opinion either way. But I think before the argument is made we should be clear pot is not good for you, it is in fact not good for you especially if you are smoking it.
That said I do lots of things that aren't good for me, I drink sometimes, I don't work out enough, I eat way too much salt & sugar sometimes, I get the occational sun burn............I have not extensively studied any of these but I am sure they are all on about the same scale of how bad pot is for you.
So who am I to say that people shouldn't do it. On the other hand, in an era when the government is trying to take measures to reduce smoking, improve sun safety/fitness awareness, legislate against over use of salts and bad sugars in our food.
Why are the moving in to opposite direction on this?
And the only good medical argument for pot is the cost effectiveness. For some reason its the "It" treatment right now so doctors don't want to come out strongly against it, but coke was once and medicine and we have all seen old videos of doctors recommending cigarettes.